Deforestation has cast Moo Deng’s wild relatives into a hostile landscape of cocoa farms and mines.

Over three generations, Christian children in Africa have surpassed their parents' education level at a much higher rate than Muslim and traditionalist children.

The discovery of Ajami, a modified Arabic script, shows that African people labeled illiterate for not writing in French were anything but.

B12 deficiency is an enormous yet overlooked problem and the current food relief is not helping. Researchers call for new solutions.

This increases the risk of disastrous flash flooding in the region’s coastal cities.

Nurses on the front lines of a pandemic need education, training and institutional support.

Images from camera traps show West African lions venturing out of protected areas and closer to humans. Researchers have an idea why.

Last week, the World Health Organization declared the year-long Ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency. Did they wait too long?

Archaeology and materials science confirm the "pure gold" coins of medieval West Africa. "...the process used to refine gold in Tadmekka is real."